Village Theatre
Village Bay,
Lake Arrowhead,
CA
92352
Village Bay,
Lake Arrowhead,
CA
92352
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The Village Theatre was actually a permanent tent in the arcade which was listed as (Closed) in the 1943 edition of Film Daily Yearbook. It had reopened by 1950. I was there in the summers of 1957, 1958, 1959, and 1960. I don’t think it survived all of the massive remodel in and around the old Swiss-type village back in the 1980’s(?) I saw all of the latest films there, including “Don’t Give Up The Ship”, “This Earth is Mine” and “Snow White And The Three Stooges”; many others. Lake Arrowhead was a WONDERFUL place back in the exciting era of the movies and the town theatres they were shown in. Lake Arrowhead was unpopulated then; and the hot dry heat enhanced the aroma of the Pines; the entire amiable surroundings of the place; the memories all so enduring…..
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The Lake Arrowhead Village Theater appears to have opened on July 8, 1938 with “Four Men and a Prayer.” The theater co-existed with the open-air Lake Arrowhead Theater which had opened a decade earlier as the Ye Jester Theater for the remainder of the 1938 season. The open air theater doesn’t appear to have reopened in 1939. The Lake Arrowhead Village Theater’s last advertised sho was “Frenzy” on September 9, 1972 although it may well have continued past that date.